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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
PRICE THREE CENTS.
Sea Songs.

Aloft and allow in the glimmer and glow Of
stars,
Across and along the path Of the new moon
creeping,
The dawn of the crescent sails on the dusk OF
spars,
Leans over to kiss the lips Of the ocean
sleeping.
The wind that touches the secret pulsins
Aloft and allow on those perfect breasts Of
snow,
Is grooming across the nlidnights peaceful
A song that came out of chaos through
time to grow.
And under the bow the lucent ripples break
In shapes that are fair, in rhythm that is
sweet beyond measure;
Till the heart is full and no more its thirst
can slake
In the fathomless fountains Of joy where
the sea makes pleasure.
Afar where the waves and the sky together
are growing,
Out of the jaws of night with muttering
roar,
Comes tremendous thnnder, sound as of
sea kline lowing:
The voice of the deep that is sullenly
shifting the shore.
Adown from the measureless mountain of
sails above,
When the starlight falters and melts and
is too faint to glisten,
A sailor lad murmurs an old-world ballad
of love;
And the sea and my heart are silent and
tremble and listen.
wv j. Henderson.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
Helning Ont the Minister

A strange chance threw me in COM
pany, to-day, on street corner, with an
oculist and aurist and a minister, writes
the Chicago Journals "Sidewalk Stroll
er." In the course of the conversation
the oculist made curious and instructive
remark about the eyes and eyesight. He
said: 'It is a singular thing that when
man thinks his eyes are all out of sorts,
and that his eyesight is failing, there is
apt to be nothing the matter with him,
and that when he thinks his eyes are all
right, but that the objects of sight are
too small or blurred, then his eyesight is
failing. When fellow can see as we'll
as he used to, and feels like rubbing and
bathing his eyes, he is not in very bad
way; but when he complains that the
newspapers are not printed in as large or
as clear type as they were formerly, then
his eyes are failing. The same paradox
exists in the sense of hearing When a
man feels like picking his ears there is
nothing very serious the matter with his
ears; but when he thinks his ears are all
right, and that everybody around him
mumblcs his words, then he is going
deaf" These remarks caused the minis
ter's eyes to sparkle somewhat, and he
said, "What a beautiful illustration.
Come and hear me preach next Sunday,
and see how | will use it. have ser
mon on the stocks from the text, The
heart is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked; who can know itT
and have been cudgeling my brains for
two days for some adequate illustration
of that text. You see, when man
blames himself for everything that goes
wrong, he is apt not to be to blame at
all; but if he thinks he is paragon and
everybody else at fault, then he is apt to
be all wrong, and the cause of all his
own miseries. You have no idea how
much easier it is to amplify a thought
when you have even one really good
illustration"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
Commission That Was Declined.

Artists have good many queer Gus
toners, and they have advantages for
observing what vague ideas it is possible
for man to entertain respecting art and
nature too. An cx-soldicr went to the
studio of D. J. Cue, of Brooklyn, one
day. to inspect a picture of Lookout
Mountain that the artist had been paint
ing. The picture pleased him, and he
evidently had thoughts of purchase, but
he was suddenly struck with brilliant
idea that he communicated thus: 81
was in that fight, mister, and I'd like
you to paint my picture on that. Let's
see. You could paint me right here in
this field, facing front, with my left
hand resting on top of the mountain. "
The man was in thorough earnest. He
did not see that if drawn to scale his
figure would be about 5000 feet high,
aud that he would have reach of arm
that would enable him to grasp at an
object six or seven miles away. Mr..
Cue prccipitately declined the commits
sion. - Brooklyn Eagle.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
A Dog in League With Rats.

Napoleon, huge mastiif who domi-
mates the cellar of Charles Duccy, on
Sixth avenue, says the New York Mail
and Express, has so far forgotten his
canine dignity as to form league with
the rats that infcst his domain. There
was some hope that Napoleon's presence
would scare away the vcrmin, but moth
ing of the sort occurred, and now the
Newfoundland lives royalty upon a share
of the dainties stolen by the rats. When
a rat'appears with roast chicken or a
piece of beef Napoleon barks tiercely
and snatchcs the meat from the rodents
jaws. His meal over he aifectionately
licks the coat of his provider by way of
thanks.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
Chicago,s Waning Stock Business.

Chicago is gradually feeling the west
ward drift of the cattle and hog busi-
ness. The traffic of the great stock
yards Is lessening, and the time is near
at hand when Kansas City pork products
and Montana and New Mexico dressed
beef will partially supplaut the Chicago
pork and beef in Eastern markets. Not
many years ago all the beef consumed
in Boston and vicinity was driven on the
hoof to Brighton, Medford and Water
town. 1t now comes largely in refrig-
orator cars. Chicago will sooner OF
later meet asimilar experience. i Boston
Cultiyator.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15

herself, and took the rooms her mother
had had in the Sister House.
She lived there, for nearly half CEN
tury, calm, orderly, peaceful life. She
never again left the quiet building in
which her childhood had been passed,
or tried to break its dull monotony.
But when she used to tell of this, her
one adventure, her eyes would burn and
her chin quiver.
She would never hear an evil word
against any of Gods creatures.
81, myself" she would say, twas
once among the abandoned of the earth,
poor circus players and wild beast
tanners, and they treated me as though
l had been their own child. Gods mark
of ownership is on all His children
somewhere. Youths Companion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
A Novel Incentive to Specd,

Honest John Blank was for several
years the well-know Governor of a New
England state. Governor John had a
brother William, perhaps equally honest,
though less well known, who was a
sportsman, and somewhat given to the
cheering cup On one of his shooting
excursions William aud a boon COM
panion found that their horse did not
trot quite rapidly enough to correspond
with their exhilarated notions of the
proper speed, and the companion fired a
charge of bird shot into the animal to
encourage him. The horse dashed
wildly off, the buggy rocking, hats and
parcels flying in all directions, and
William, ruler of the storm, shouted with
delight: "Shoot i'm ag'in! shoot i'm
ag'in! He goes admirably. ~ Harper's
Magazine.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
A Gigantic Leaf,

At the meeting of the Royal Botanic
Society of England, recently, among
other curiosities of plant life exhibited
was leaf of the Victoria Regia water
lily, seven feet in diameter, showing the
peculiar structure of the under side Of
the leaf, from which one might suppose
the cellular structure of some ironclads
and other large vessels was taken. The
radiating ribs or veins resemble T grid
ers tied together by deep, lateral walls,
forming many hundred air-tight cells,
some so large as to contain ten ounces of
water, and, of course, when floating on
the water and filled with air, giving re-
markable buoyancy to the leaf, single
leaf having been known to support a
weight of 400 pounds.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
The Cork Oak.

The growth of cork-oak in California
is not matter of experiment; its sue
cess was demonstrated long ago. The
distribution of cork-acorns by the Patent
Office about twenty-five years ago may
not have accomplished much in other
parts of the country, but it gave us a
start, and there are now trees yielding
cork and bearing acorns at a number of
different places in the State. There are
trees growing on Mr.. Richardson's place
at San Gabriel. There were samples of
cork and acorns shown at the Sacramen-
to Citrus Fair by H. A. Messenger, of
Calaveras County. There are trees Of
similar age in Sonoma Santa Barbara
and Tulare, and perhaps other counties.
The State University is growing seed
lings from California cork acorns, and
will be likely to have the teces for dis
tribution next year. There is no doubt
about the adaptation of the tree to the
State, as the widely separated places
named above all furnish proper condi-
tions for its growth. 1t is of course
crop of which one has to wait some time
to gather, and therefore needs patience
in the planter.
All the corkwood of commerce comes
from the Spanish Peninsula, where the
trees abound not only in cultivated
forests but also grow wild on the noun
tains. The tree is like an American
oak, and acorns. 1t takes ten years for
the bark to become proper thickness
to be manufactured into bottle shoppers,
life preservers and seine corks. When
stripped from the tree it is to be boiled
for two hours, cured in the sun for o
week and pressed into fiat pieces for
baling and shipping. The denuded
trunk, like hen robbed of her eggs,
does not sulk and quit the business, but
throws out fresh covering for fresh
spoliation. One tree has been known to
yield half ton of corkwood One
pound of cork can be manufactured into
144 champagne corks. The balcd cork
bark is sold to cork manufacturing cen
tres. The most extensive mandatory
in America is at Pittsburg. Besides tho
ordinary demands for cork bark, a good
supply of the buoyant material, after be-
ing burned, to make it still tighter than
the original bark, is shipped to Canada
and New England, where it is made INTO
seine corks. The average annual i'm
portation of corkwood into this country,
entirely at the port of New York, is TO-
900 bales year. A bale weighs 100
pounds, and is worth on this side of the
water $50, making total value of the
importations of 81, 400, 900. 1t comes in
duty free. = Pacific Rural Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
Interesting Photographs,

An accomplished amateur photogra-
pher has a set Of rough Manila albums,
each one devoted to one of his children.
The first page shows the baby a day old
and not a month passes without picture
of that child or some of its surround
ings-the nursery, the house, its books
and playthings. On some pages are
family groups in which the child fig
ures. Beneath each picture is written
the date, and the album will constitute
a curious record for the future. = Har'
per's Bazaar,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
Will OutTrOw IT.

'1'm not going to play with Willie
Waffles any more" was Flossie's die
tum.
willie is very nice little boy,' said
her mamma.
81 don't like him. In fact, l don't
like boys at all, mamma 1 guess it is
because I'm not old enough, New
York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
His Vacation.

''Hello, Charley, what are you doing,
movingl" asked one young man of an
other whom he met with big valise in
his hand.
'1've just commenced my vacation"
"Your vacation9'
"Yes. Tn vacating at the request Of
my landlady. "-[Washington Critic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
Freaks of Electricity,

''Did you rcad," asked Dufunny,
''about that baldhcadcd man in Micii-
gan who went out in a storm and had a
cat photographed on his head by light
ning"
"Yes, read about it,
"Wonderful, wasn't itl"
80, l don't know. Nothing strange
about that. l once had sad iron pho
tographed on my head without the aid
of lightning"
"How did that happen9"
''My wife did it. VI Nebraska State
Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
A Correct Diagnosis.

Young physician Ito patien): Your
dyspepsia comes, think, sir, from too
high living. You are very high liver,
are you notl
Patient: Yes, sir; live on the top
floor of a New York fiat - Life.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
HUMOROUS.
Rich bread-A big pay roll.

ltiSh IA Sau a biSo Ply iOAi'
Companions in arms-Twins.
The sculptor is the man who carves
out his own fortune.
The cream of the base ball club should
be found in the pitcher.
"Bear with me little" observed the
grizzly as he hugged the hunter.
"0h mammal sighed little Ethel, 81
have such headache in my sashH'
1t is the silent watches of the night
that render alarm clocks necessary.
The fisherman has no difficulty in
making both ends meet when he catches
an eel.
An advertisement in live paper is OF
great assistance to o dentist 1t "draws"
for him.
There is one drawback to being
queen. The people know just how old
you are.
No, Nellie, stirrup is not what they
used to beat eggs with, but to ride
horseback.
Squildig calls big bulldog in his
ncighborhood Delay" because delays
arc dangerous.
Wife: "In the game of lawn tennis,
my dear, what is the most difficult thing
to acouire2" Husband: "The lawn"
An old woman may be an incorrigible
gossip, but when you come right down
to facts, the peacock is the greatest tail
bearer of all.
Teacher Ito the class in chemistry):
What does sea water contain besides the
sodium chloride that we have mentioned7
Head boy: Fish.
The man who has "nothing to. live
for" calls in the doctor as quick as any
other man when there is anything the
matter with him.
Thirty-two hundred babies are born in
the United States every day, and yet
pcop'c wonder where all the squalls and
cyclones come from.
Guest Ito child of hostcss)-''My
little pet, why do you sit next to me at
table to-day?' Child-"Betause-be-
tausc mamma says 90 drink like fish,
and want to see 90 do it."
Foreman to editoD-Do you want
the Rev. Mr. Goodman's sermon, "Feed
my Lambs" to 20 on the editorial pagel
Editor (adsept- -mindedly)-No. Run it
in the agricultural Department.
Scasickness, it is said docs not origi-
nate in the stomach. This may be true,
but those who have been its victims can
avouch that it starts straight for the
stomach the moment it attacks you.
A barber says that his occupation pro.
duccs the most nervous men in the
world This is probably owing to the
fact that barber is no sooner through
with one scrapc than he begins another.
Little Boy-Pa, what does ''phenom-
email" mean2 Fathcr-It is word used
by the citizens of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas
and Nebraska when they refer to the
growth of their respective towns. II
| doesn't mean much.
The Rev. Joseph Cook says it is hard
for man to get away from his environ
mcnt The youth painfully realizes
this when he has barbed wire orchard
fence on one side, ferocious bull dog
on another, and tie old man coming at
him with hay fork.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
PharaOh's Flowers.

The remains of no less than Fl 'ty-nine
species of Towering plants from mummy
wrappings IN Egypt have been identi-
fed. The flowers have been wonder
fully preserved, even the delicate violet
color of the larkspur and the scarlet of
the poppy, the chlorophyl in the leaves,
and the sugar in the raisins, remaining
-TChicago Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
Medical Advice.

"There is your money, doctor, and
I'm much obliged to you. Ideclare, my
children are always meeting with acci-
dents, and ought to know how to treat
them. Now. what would you do in the
case of broken arml"
"Well, say ten dollars for setting, and
afterward the usual price, two dollars q
visit.-lBoston Courier.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
"Of No Consequence"

A bright little girl, who did not see
the value of arithmetic, was asked to
give the total of five cows and seven
cows. ''Nine," she answered promptly,
and her answer being rejected, said
ELEVEN" On again being convinced
of error, she became scornfully indiffer-
cut, "Oh, it's of no consequence how
many cows there are, - she said; "you
know we'll enough and don't want t
know. "-[Troy Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
A Good Reason

Officer-"Private Schulz, why has
the soldier eight buttons on the front OF
his ecati'
Private Schulz" Because there are
just eight button-ho!es, ,n-LGerman
Joke
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
A Practical Fathers Opinion.

Anxious Chicago Father Ito friend)-
l fear that my son will never amount to
anything.
81 heard" the friend consolingly re-
piled. ''that he had written magnif-
cent criticism on the school of Ameri-
can realism"
"Oh, yes, he did that, but he sold a
COW for $40 when he might just as well
have got $40. %. 5."-lArkansas Traveller.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-09-15
At Thirty.Five.

At Thirty.Five.
II half of three-score years and ten
Make half the life of man;
II life is merely time, why, then,
I've but to live my past again,
To finish out my span.
But since thousand years may run
Through one brief moments thought,
My life, though it were nearly done,
I'd count in truth but just begun
Had accomplished naught.
What have donel Well, this at least
I've taught myself to strive;
I've learned that crusts may mako feast
That wealth is only want decreased
live at least at thirty-five.
-[Chicago News.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-07-13
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES,

The Republican party, it would
be well enough to remember, needs fol-
lowers more than il needs leaders. -
Memphis AvalGnche.
Bill Chambers resurrection in
New Hampshire pleases many Repub-
lican organs, but the truly happy are
Secor Robson, Boss Keifer, Powell
Clayton and Steve Dorsey. Chicago
Eerald.
You'll find. if you look into it
closely, that the fellow who now waves
the bloody shirt the fiercest is the same
chap who was dying with consumption
twenty-five years ago and couldn't 60
to war Cincinnati Telegram.
CHARLES Sumner was one of tn.
first men to propose the destruction Of
battle flags and other emblems of the
late war, and there was certainly no
reason to believe that he had any par.
tisan purpose in doing SON. Y.
Graphic.
1t comes IN bad taste for John
Sherman to complain of the rebel brig.
adiers being put in the saddle to-day,
when twenty years ago his party sci
the example by putting Mosby, Long.
street and Key In the saddle to the ex.
clusion of wounded Union veterans
Governor 81. John
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-07-13
BORED BY INSECTS.
Tho Framework OF u House Ruined by
an Army of Ants.

The Framework OF House Ruined by
an Army Of Ants.
The most dreaded insect invader is
the white ant. In Africa their houses
are dome-shaped mounds often eighteen
feet high. These insects erect pyra-
mids one thousand times higher than
themselves! The ants on their travels
so conceal their approach that their
presence is not suspected until tho
damage is done. They usually tunnel
into any object which they attack,
often reducing it to mere she'll. In
this way they have been known to as
cend within the leg of table, devour
the contents of boxupon it and de-
scend through tunnel bored in anoth-
or leg. all in one night. An officer of
the English army, while calling upon
some ladies In Ceylon was startled by
rumbling sound. The ladies started
with alright and the next instant
they stood with only the sky above
them; the roof had fallen in and lay
all about, leaving them miraculously
unharmcd! The ants had made their
way up through the beams. following
them out until great part of the
framework of the house was ready to
fall at the slightest shock. Charles
Frederick Holder, in st. Nicholas. =
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-07-13
HENRY l.. BlOSSiT, Business Manage
COMPENSATION.
When the wind blows east from the wide sa

When the wind blows east from the wide salt
sea,
And great trees writhe in the lusty gale,
When masts are straining and sheets flow free,
And reefs are bent in each swelling sail,
When the sea- birds gather along the sand,
And sparrows chatter below the caves,
Then deep in the sudden sweeps OF land,
Quicken the buds and the bursting leaves.
When out from the tossing deeps OF cloud,
That over the heavens masses lie,
The Iightnings leap, and the storm grows loud
In the wide waste space Of the sOmber sky,
When cyclones gather, and whirlwinds rush
Like tidal waves by an earthquake rolled,
The mornings light and the evenings flush
Burn bright in the haryest's ripening gold.
When floods lie deep where the meadow grass
Was green in the summers sunlit days,
And wreck and ruin in fierce wrath pass
Where once was plenty and peaceful ways,
When rains are hurtling, and woods resound
with storm made echoes through all their
gloom,
The new life wakens along the ground,
And the first sweet flowers of the spring-tim
bloom,
When sorrows gather. and hope seems dead,
And pain is heavy, and weary toll
Has stolen the sweetness from your bread,
And you lose the fight and the victors spoil,
When sunless plains in your way expand,
And cold bleak mou ntains loom high above,
Then far in the distance you see One stand,
And the day grows fair with the light of love.
-Tb0s s. tt0iLier in Youths Communion
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-07-13
How to Ripen Bananas.

Being very much Of a democrat, not
to say Bohemian. stopped yesterday
to purchase some bananas of bright
eyed son of Italy in the neighborhood
Of the Providence railroad station. The
negotiation was about completed when
a Mortified voice behind me exclaimed:
What are you doingP' Buying
some fruit" was my meek response.
"Well, don't buy bananas of an Italian,
whatever else you do" "And why not,
pray?' "only this and nothing MORE"
replied my mentor, drawing me away,
'these descendants of Dante pack the
green bananas into bed with their FAM
lilies because the heat of their bodies
ripen them, that's all. :" "All right,
the method is perfect success" said;
but / ordered some Strawberries in
stead, my mentor giving full and SUBJ
stantial reason for his singular infor-
nation in regard to the banana trade.
Boston Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-07-13
The Place to Sec Life.

Edward Everett Hale told the stu.
dents of Cornell that the best oppor,
tunity Of studying human nature was
to be had by entering the profession of
the schoolmaster. Mr.. Hale is q
keen observer. but his judg-
ment is not entirely sound
in this matter. The ideal oppor-
tunity for studying human nature in
an almost infinite variety of phases
and under almost every conceivable
circumstance is enjoyed by reporter
for metropolitan journal. There is
no other way of ''seeing life" and
learning to know men that compares
with this.-M r Tribune.
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ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY,. JULY 10, 1897

easily accounted for. The Democratic
party is giving the people better gov
eminent than that which characterized
Republican rule, and is in favor of just
and equal laws for all. The Repub-
lican party is still welded to the idols
that caused it's overthrow in 1884 and
has shown in adversely a more malig-
nant and reckless spirit than in pros
perity. It can not assimilate itself
with the cause of the people, for it is
the creature and tool of monopoly.
Its intolerance alone is sufficient to
keep it unpopular, and when its innate
tendency to corruption and extrava-
gance is added, nothing more is needed
to show that it is entitled to an in
definite period of exclusion from the
government of the people.-Albo"s
IN " Arqus.